NICTER Reports

We summarize the cyber attack data collected by observing darknet traffic or various honeypots as an annual report.

NICTER Observation Report 2023

NICTER Observation Report 2023 (only in Japanese) (4.6MB)

This report mainly summarizes below information:

2023 Darknet Observation Statistics
- Annual Packet Observation Count
- Daily Trends in Observed Packet Counts
- Packet Counts by Destination Port
Analysis of Observed Events
- Trends in the Number of Mirai-infected Hosts
- Activities of Infected Slurs Botnet
- IoT Botnet Infections Targeting LTE Routers
- Analysis of Scanning Activities by Organizations
Status of DRDoS Attacks

Key figures and tables in the report are shown below.

Table1. NICTER Darknet Observation Statistics (last 10 years)

Figure 1. Number of observed packets per 1 IP address per year (last 10 years)

Figure 2. Distribution of packets by destination port number (excluding packets from Internet scanners)

NICTER Observation Report 2016 - 2022 (only in Japanese)

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